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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the collar of Utz's bathrobe made from?
(a) Monkey fur.
(b) Ostrich plumes.
(c) Bear fur.
(d) Emu feathers.

2. What season does Utz say provided the happiest times?
(a) Sunflower season.
(b) Mushroom season.
(c) Potato season.
(d) Paprika season.

3. Why does Utz say he had his feet on both sides of the iron curtain?
(a) He had a government job.
(b) He had investments in the West.
(c) He had family in West.
(d) He was a pilot.

4. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?
(a) Depression.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Optimism.

5. What city does Utz say he sleeps soundly in?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Prague.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Brno.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?

2. What does the boy do when the blonde woman touches him?

3. What room does the narrator ask to see?

4. What Asian country had a huge impact on European imagination?

5. What does Utz think his food lacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator see in Utz's bedroom?

2. What did Utz fantacize would happen on his trip?

3. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

4. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

5. Why does Utz want to go back to Prague?

6. Why did Marco Polo call Cowrie beads porcelain shells?

7. How did the German's use Bottger's porcelain during the 1923 inflation?

8. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

9. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

10. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

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